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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets: Emerging Equity And Bond Fund Flows Rise
Investor: News By Gordon Platt Investor flows into emerging market bond funds passed the $5 billion mark for the year to date in the week ended March 10 after posting their biggest weekly inflow in more than a ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets: Nectar Lifesciences’ GDR Raises Funds For Expansion
Investor: DR News By Gordon Platt Nectar Lifesciences, based in Chandigarh, India, makes active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), generic drugs and phytochemicals, such as mint derivatives, including menthol. In order to expand its generic pharmaceutical business and build new ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets: Zhejiang Geely/China Can Chinese Carmaker Turn Volvo Around?
Investor: Company to watch By Gordon Platt Zhejiang Geely, China’s largest privately owned automaker, aims to nearly double Volvo’s annual global production if it succeeds in acquiring the Volvo Cars division of Ford Motor. The Chinese firm is ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Features: Analysis – Accounting Standards
CONVERGENCE OR CONVERSION? Multinational corporations face a less confusing future as US and international groups work toward accounting standards convergence. By Amy E. Buttell After 15 long months, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Features: Focus – Trade Finance
REBUILDING TRUST IN TRADE Trade finance is stabilizing, but caution is the watchword in an industry still reeling from the effects of the financial crisis. By Anita Hawser Throughout the financial crisis, trade finance, that ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features: Regional Report – Southeast Asia
A FORCED TO BE RECKONED WITH The economically vibrant nations of Southeast Asia are forging closer links—and creating a regional powerhouse in the process. By Thomas Clouse While the world has focused its attention ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Features: Treasury & Cash Management – Liquidity Management
RISK AND REWARD Businesses are increasingly seeking to outsource parts of their accounting processes and discovering that contingency planning is...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
How Safe Is Your Safety Net?
INSURANCE FOCUS The fallout from the financial crisis is prompting risk managers to take a cold, hard look at their insurance providers. Many do not like what they see. By Paula L. Green Don’t let that ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Mapping The Bank Regulation Maze
COVER STORY: BANKING Bankers and regulators are beginning to lay out the future structure of the global financial industry. In the short term, it is set to be a deeply confusing place. By Nick Kochan It ...
Banking
Middle East Supplement: Bankers Survey A Changed Landscape
MIDDLE EAST: BANKING INDUSTRY Banks across the region learned many painful lessons during the crisis but have emerged stronger than ever. By Gordon Platt Financial institutions across the Middle East are carefully monitoring their loan portfolios ...
Banking
Middle East Supplement: Oil Wealth Keeps Economic Stimulus Flowing
MIDDLE EAST: ECONOMY Government spending will keep the Middle East’s economic recovery on track in 2010. By Gordon Platt The Middle East rode out the global recession better than the major industrialized economies, and the ...